Patch notes can also be viewed at https://ascendingrealms.com/patch/v0.7.5-demo

Ascension Conquest is a new roguelike wave-based survival mode where you select 1-3 heroes with custom loadouts and fight against increasingly difficult waves of enemies in a single-sector arena. Between waves, choose powerful cards to enhance your heroes' abilities and stats, and select between easy or hard difficulty paths that affect enemy strength and rewards. Survive as long as possible to earn XP for your heroes to unlock unique wargear and Ascension Shards currency that can be used for cosmetic upgrades in the shop. Each run features dynamic enemy scaling and strategic decision-making as you build your perfect combination of heroes and card synergies to push deeper into the mode and unlock greater rewards.

The Plague Doctor spreads disease and summons vermin to fight for them. Predominantly relying on decay auras and summons to do their bidding.

Diseased Rats that are part of the neutral unit faction (Primal Ones). They can also be summoned by the Plague Doctor as part of his "Summon Vermin" ability.

Diseased Bats that are part of the neutral unit faction (Primal Ones). They can also be summoned by the Plague Doctor as part of his "Summon Vermin" ability.

Play Official and Custom maps with various configurable starting match parameters. There are 9 maps (8 new):

• No Mans Land (small, 1x3)

• The Gauntlet (small, 2x1)

• Crossroads (medium, 2x2)

• Contested Grounds (small, 2x2)

• Valley Of Strife (medium, 3x2)

• Twin Peaks (medium, 3x2)

• Dragons Reach (large, 3x3)

• Fertile Grounds (large, 3x3)

• Instant Action (same map from the Instant Action game mode)

Procedurally generate maps based on configurable parameters and save them to play in Skirmish mode.

Note: It is possible to copy/paste a .map file in the maps directory in the game's installation and create your own maps with full flexibility by editing the JSON directly.

A new testing arena accessible from the Singleplayer menu. Spawn any unit or hero from the game, switch between ally/enemy/neutral teams, and experiment with combat mechanics in an isolated 3-sector environment. The left panel features tabbed controls for hero management (level up, max level, refresh cooldowns, full heal), unit spawning, and items. The right panel tracks live combat statistics including damage dealt, DPS, critical hit percentage, and kill counts, with a recording feature to measure performance over specific time windows. Session controls let you pause time, toggle day/night, enable god mode for friendly units, kill all enemies, or reset the arena instantly. Perfect for testing hero builds, learning unit matchups, or just having fun without the pressure of a real match.

• NEW: Steam Profile Avatar (and Profile Level) is displayed in the top left corner of the main menu, clicking it takes you to your in-game profile, there is also a Profile button in the main menu now.

• NEW: Steam Cloud support.

• NEW: Steam Rich Presence. Your in-game activity is shown on Steam to your friends such as "In Instant Action Match" while you play.

• NEW: Steam Input (controller) support. Supports most controllers automatically.

• Profile Level. Level up to unlock in-game rewards (currently in-game Profile avatar borders).

• Clan (coming in a future update).

• Choose your favourite faction.

• Choose your favourite hero.

• Displays your 5 most Recent Matches.

• Displays your last (up to) 1,000 matches (each match's details are stored locally in JSON format).

• Lists 10 per page with match end time, victory/defeat, map, game mode, duration etc.

• Clicking on an entry brings up a modal that shows more details about that match.

Displays all of your Steam Achievements (locked and unlocked).

Displays all of your unlocked (and locked) content such as Steam Avatar border decorations (with other types of content to be added over time).

Create and design banners showing off your creativity. The banners are displayed in-game while you play.

Play, shuffle, loop your favourite original soundtracks while in-game.

• Lifesteal: Heal for a percentage of damage dealt to a hostile unit.

• Bleed: Lose a fixed amount of health per second for the duration of the debuff.

• When units are deployed to a Sector they each start a 2 second deployment cooldown before they can be deployed again to another Sector.

• Units stagger their initial attack when deployed to a Sector with hostile units by a random amount between 0.3 and 0.7 seconds after deployment.

• Units are now more spread out when multiple units are attacking the same target (reducing the visual overlap).

• Only up to 3 melee units at a time can attack the same unit. Other melee units that currently have no target will wander around until there is an opportunity to attack a unit. Hero melee units have priority to attack.

• All units (including heroes) have had their evasion rate set to 0%. The "Night Fall" buff that is active for all units at night no longer provides double the evasion rate per unit. It now provides a flat +10% evasion increase to all units instead.

• If a unit is stunned a stunned animation is shown above the unit.

• If a unit is affected by the burn debuff or bleed debuff an animation plays over the unit to indicate that status.

• Bottom HUD health regen icon changed to a red heart.

• Added Lifesteal stat to the bottom HUD.

• Actual ability cooldown post-reductions is now displayed in parentheses next to the base cooldown in ability description tooltips.

• If units reach the border of a sector they shouldn't get stuck and spin out of control anymore.

• Changed the hero level up sound effect.

• Ranged units (excluding heroes) can be garrisoned in Townhalls under faction control. Up to 4 units can be garrisoned at once. Garrisoned units have unlimited range within the sector and receive double the regular Fortification bonus whilst garrisoned from the Townhall as the source.

• The population count in the top HUD now shows the population count of all three factions.

• Cooldown reduction maxes out at 90%.

• There is now sticky unit selection, meaning deploying units to a sector no longer deselects those units nor does clicking on a sector to view it while having units selected (this makes unit deployment and sector viewing interactions more intuitive).

• Increases to evasion, lifesteal, movement speed, cooldown reduction etc that are percentage based now stack diminishingly.

• Attack speed decreased from 0.5s → 1.1s.

• Incendiary Arrows upgrade now shows flames on arrows mid-flight.

• Base health regeneration increased from 1 → 2.

• Maximum health increased from 400 → 500.

• Attack speed increased from 2.0 → 1.75.

• Base armour increased from 8 → 10.

• Base attack damage minimum increased from 26 → 28.

• Base attack damage maximum increased from 32 → 33.

• Added a visual lightning aura.

• Base health regeneration reduced from 2 → 1.

• Attack range increased from 200 → 250.

• Attack speed increased from 1.8 → 1.6.

• Base attack damage maximum decreased from 41 → 40.

• Hero equipped items can now be sold to make room for higher tier items by right-clicking on an item and clicking "Sell Item for X Gold".

• Common items can be sold for 100 gold.

• Rare items can be sold for 400 gold.

• Legendary items can be sold for 750 gold.

1. If a hero unit dies they can be resurrected for 2000 gold and 500 food at a friendly controlled Townhall. It takes 45 seconds for the resurrection to be completed. The hero is resurrected with their previous level, XP, and items retained.

2. Hero abilities now start weak and increase in power (details below) as heroes level up (both active and passive abilities).

3. Added "Tech Tree" text underneath the Tech Tree button in the bottom HUD when a friendly townhall is selected.

4. Added an on hover tooltip for dropped items floating on the ground in Skirmish/Instant Action mode (This shows the item's name and description).

5. Units can no longer be deployed to another sector whilst they are stunned.

• Damage: 50 → 30 base (scales +5 per level)

• Level 1: 30 damage

• Level 10: 75 damage

1. Stun Duration: 2s → 1.5s base (scales +0.1 per level)

• Level 1: 1.5 seconds

• Level 10: 2.4 seconds

• Armor: 2 → 1 base (scales +0.2 per level)

• Level 1: +1 armor

• Level 10: +2.8 armor

1. Damage Bonus: 3 → 2 base (scales +0.5 per level)

• Level 1: +2 damage

• Level 10: +6.5 damage

1. Health Regen: 1 → 0.5 base (scales +0.1 per level)

• Level 1: +0.5 regen

• Level 10: +1.4 regen

• Damage: 35 → 20 base (scales +4 per level)

• Level 1: 20 damage

• Level 10: 56 damage

1. Targets: 5 → 3 base (scales +0.33 per level, floored)

• Level 1: 3 targets

• Level 4–7: 4 targets

• Level 8–10: 5 targets

• Attack Speed: 0.5 → 0.3 base (scales +0.05 per level)

• Level 1: +0.3 attack speed

• Level 10: +0.75 attack speed

1. Movement Speed: 0.3 → 0.15 base (scales +0.03 per level)

• Level 1: +0.15 movement speed

• Level 10: +0.42 movement speed

• Prerequisite lines drawn between upgrades are now white instead of grey so it is visually easier to distinguish between them.

• Upgrades which you don't have sufficient resources for will now show those resources in red text just like the unit recruitment panel.

Ironclad Pack:

• "Steel Armour", "Leather Armour", and "Shift Fog" upgrades no longer require Townhall Level 2 to upgrade.

• "Flaming Sword" now requires "Steel Armour" to be upgraded and Townhall Level 2.

• "Hawkeye" now requires "Leather Armour" to be upgraded and Townhall Level 2.

• "Incendiary Arrows" now requires "Leather Armour" to be upgraded and Townhall Level 2.

Arcane Talon:

• "Arcane Mastery", "Divine Fortitude", and "Shift Fog" upgrades no longer require Townhall Level 2 to upgrade.

• New upgrade for Wizards which requires both "Arcane Mastery" to be unlocked and Townhall Level 2:

• Resounding Blast: Wizards fire two projectiles in quick succession with each attack.

• Costs 900 Gold, 400 Wood, 200 Food, and takes 50s to complete the upgrade.

1. New upgrade for Shieldbreakers which requires both "Divine Fortitude" and Townhall Level 2:

• Radiant Strike: Shieldbreakers heal for 10% of damage dealt (lifesteal).

• Costs 850 Gold, 350 Wood, 180 Food, and takes 45s to complete the upgrade.

• Sector information and statistics are displayed underneath the minimap for the currently selected sector.

• Changed the loading splash screen image.

• Maps are now stored as .map files and are loaded into the game dynamically (this will be for both official and custom map support moving forward).

• Changed the text in the Hero Item's section from "No items in inventory" to "No items" (the text fits better at lower resolutions).

• Added a new background to the Faction Selection screen.

• Patch notes button in the main menu now takes you to the patch notes on the new website.

• Credits and Discord buttons in the main menu now have a tooltip when hovering over them.

• Significant performance improvements across the board.

• Changed "Maximum FPS" in the settings screen to "Target FPS" for clarity.

• Abilities no longer show their name and cooldown text in the bottom HUD. All of that information is now in the on hover tooltip of the ability icons.

• "< Back" button added to the top left corner of the Settings page (these buttons are across all the new pages).

• There is now a "Leave Game?" confirmation box when clicking "Quit Game".

• The in-game menu button in the top right corner is now white instead of black and turns yellow on hover.

• The Skirmish mode and Instant Action mode post-match statistics screen now has the resource icons instead of the words.

• Added a new setting "Send Crash Reports" which is enabled by default. If the game crashes the specific information related to the crash is automatically sent for diagnosis and fixing.

• Warning messages such as "Not enough resources" etc are now shown in red text above the bottom HUD instead of in the top right corner with the other notifications.

Relive the retro era with the CRT Display Effect which can be toggled on/off in the settings (off by default).

• The clock now has a smoother colour transition between day/night and vice versa.

• The minimap now shows the sector background and border decorations (trees etc) instead of just a grey background.

• Hero item grid in the bottom HUD colour changed from white to grey for empty slots, border matches the rarity colour of the item for equipped slots.

• Old trees replaced with several new ones.

• Added a new environment type: Barren Lands. It also includes bones as decoration.

• Added an on hover glow effect to units and buildings.

• Changed the level up animation colour from dark purple to yellow/gold.

• Added a visual effect when a unit or hero is attacking with lifesteal.

• Units now display a speech bubble upon selection showing different phrases (it is on a cool down to reduce spam).

• Farm and Townhall have been changed and have flags indicating faction ownership.

• Unit, building, and tree shadows are only visible during daytime.

• Updated the Townhall Level 2 upgrade icon in the Technology Tree.

• Updated the Cursed Tree and gave it a visual aura.

• Increased the animation speed of the deployment animation.

• Units now have a spawn effect when recruited from a Townhall or summoned by Plague Doctor.

• Added a grey glow effect around the edge of sectors.

• Critical Damage percentage is now displayed in the bottom HUD beneath Critical Chance when a unit is selected.

• There is now a setting to enable/disable muting all audio when the game is not in focus.

• Sectors \[1,0] and \[1,2] both now start with 6 Goblin Lancers and 6 Goblin Rogues.

• Sectors \[1,0], \[2,0], and \[0,2] now also have a Cursed Tree.

• Sectors \[2,1], \[1,2], and \[0,2] now also have a Farm.

• Fixed the "Swift Storm" buff not applying to units in the initial sector that Lysari spawns in.

• Fixed Valdern's "Steel Slam" ability not applying the stun to units that were hit by it.

• Fixed Lysari's "Chain Lightning" ability not properly chaining between hostile units and made the chaining visually more obvious.

• Fixed the incorrect XP values being rewarded to heroes for kills.

• Fixed item bonuses not always applying to heroes when equipped.

• Fixed an infinite amount of notifications being shown if a Hero's inventory is full whilst trying to pick up a new item.

• Fixed not being able to click the Technology Tree button to close the Tech Tree modal when it is open.

• Fixed hero passive bonuses adding unexpected bonus damage.

• Fixed Fortification buff providing incorrect armour bonus.

• Fixed Restoration buff providing incorrect health regeneration bonus.

• Fixed evasion not always respecting the 90% evasion maximum cap.

• Fixed Fortification and Restoration buffs not updating the description text localisation if you change languages in the settings during a game session.

• Fixed several user interface bugs related to resolutions lower than and higher than 1920x1080.

• Fixed an issue with attack speed not always being applied correctly.

• Fixed an issue with tooltips persisting after a match is over into the main menu and not disappearing.

• Fixed the resources in Skirmish and Instant Action in the top HUD moving slightly to the right as they need more size to fit the numbers. They now have a bigger gap between them and are static.

• Fixed trees on hover detection zone for the tooltip being off center.

• Fixed a double green unit/building selection square being shown instead of one.

• Fixed ranged unit projectiles not always hitting their target at maximum range by introducing a slight maximum range buffer.

• Fixed hero level and crown displaying through menu modal, jukebox modal, pause modal etc.

• Fixed left-clicking in top HUD, bottom HUD, left panel, right panel, or minimap whilst having one or many units selected deselecting them.

• Fixed deploying units with right click deselecting the units.

• Fixed resource generation sometimes being stuck at the default rate in Skirmish and Instant Action.

• Fixed an issue with windowed and borderless windowed sometimes not filling the entire screen (taskbar could show over the top).

• Fixed the item pick up prompt remaining in Skirmish/Instant Action if the hero has left the sector.

• Maps are saved with a .map file extension but are made up of JSON if you wish to edit/create your own maps.

• Match History files are stored as JSON for easy parsing or for use with third party tools/websites.

This is already working with a few issues to iron out before it's ready for a public release. Watch this space!

• Quick Match

• Ranked Match

• Create Lobby (Skirmish mode or Ascension Conquest)

• Join Lobby/Lobby Browser

The ranked system has 6 tiers, each (except Master) with 3 divisions (III, II, I):

Additional Details:

• Starting Rank: 1200 (Silver II)

• 10 placement matches required before rank is finalized